Natalie Goldberg Quotes - Page 3

• Si te sientes aburrido o incómodo mientras escribes, pregúntate qué te preocupa y escribe sobre ello. A veces, tu energía creativa es como el agua en una manguera retorcida, y antes de que los pensamientos puedan fluir sobre el tema que tienes entre manos, tienes que enderezar la manguera atendiendo a lo que te preocupa.

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  Writing, Bothering You, Hands

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• Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

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  Space, Giving, Silence

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• The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

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  Escribir, Pensar, Mente

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.

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  Passion, Layers, Way

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt to my parents,” and so on. I say to them, “There is no excuse. If you want to write, write. This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait. Make the time now, even if it is ten minutes once a week."

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  Jobs, Writing, Kids

  "Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 48, 2010.

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• We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.

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  Moving, Forget, Universe

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.

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  Strong, Hurt, Real

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• The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.

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  Writing, Cutting, Darkness

  Natalie Goldberg (2008). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

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  Writing, Heart, Secret

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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• This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive.

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  Running, Inspiration, Writing

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you can have if you get over there." And usually if I got over there, I would start writing. Sometimes I need get out of the house and go to a café and write. Sometimes I'll write with other friends to get myself going. And sometimes I just say "Ok, Nat, enough. Go one hour. Keep your hand going." I'll do whatever it takes.

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  Writing, Hands, House

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected. Finally, you just do it because you happen to like it.

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  Soñar, Escribir, Pensar

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Feb 14, 2012

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• My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

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  Writing, Goal, Anxiety

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• Siempre nos preocupa estar copiando a otro, no tener nuestro propio estilo. No hay que preocuparse. Escribir es un acto comunitario. Contrariamente a la creencia popular, un escritor no es Prometeo solo en una colina llena de fuego. Somos muy arrogantes al pensar que sólo nosotros tenemos una mente totalmente original. Vamos a lomos de todos los escritores que nos han precedido. Vivimos en el presente con toda la historia, las ideas y los refrescos de este tiempo. Todo se mezcla en nuestra escritura.

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  Writing, Thinking, Fire

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

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  Notebook, Running, Cutting

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). "Escribiendo los huesos: Freeing the Writer Within", p.23, Shambhala Publications.

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• We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

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  Running, Hate, Writing

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• Writing is the act of discovery.

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  Writing, Discovery

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.126, Shambhala Publications

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• Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

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  Writing, Waiting, Speak

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.168, Shambhala Publications

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• The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

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  Struggle, Differences, Neurosis

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

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  Escribir, Corazón, Pensar

  Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.

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  Jealous, Writing, World

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). "Escribiendo los huesos: Freeing the Writer Within", p.103, Shambhala Publications.

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• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.

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  Falling In Love, Trying, Legs

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). "Mente salvaje: Living the Writer's Life", p.6, Open Road Media.

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• Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

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  Writing, Compassion, Fields

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.204, Open Road Media

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• Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

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  Thinking, Mirrors, Worry

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• What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.

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  Writing, Thinking, Practice

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Aug 05, 2011

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